The Infinite Matrix — consistently one of the best online science fiction magazines extant — has begun its final week of publication. This is a rotten day for science fiction. However, Eileen Gunn, the brilliant writer who founded and edited Infinite Matrix as a labor of love, has posted a stupendous final issue, with new fiction from James Patrick Kelly and Rudy Rucker and a tale by the late, lamented Robert Sheckley. Later this week, she’ll also publish a new essay by William Gibson, and “Appeals Court,” a novella by Charlie Stross and me, that has never before been published online.
Resistance is futile, but even so, it’s best to go out kicking and screaming, don’t you think?
So the Infinite Matrix will present a final fireworks of stories, essays and columns, and then will cease publication. The site will stay up for a year or so, although older work may be removed as the rights run out.
Look what we’ve got: a final Runcible Ansible, with its accustomed bite, a fantastic story by Rudy Rucker, The Men in the Back Room at the Country Club, a shortshort by James Patrick Kelly, grafitti photos by A. Fluffy Bunny and original art by Seattle street artist Charles Whiteside, two more columns by Howard Waldrop, an essay on race, TV, and science fiction by Pam Noles, a story by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross, an essay by William Gibson. There are even a few surprises to go up over the next few days.